Publishers Marketplace noted this sale yesterday:

NON-FICTION: HEALTH
Oprah Winfrey and trainer Bob Greene’s fitness book, to Simon & Schuster, for publication in January 2007, in what the NY Post speculates as the biggest non-fiction deal ever.

And this one:

NON-FICTION: TRUE CRIME
People magazine writer Frank Swertlow’s WE, THE JURY: Deciding Scott Peterson’s Fate, written with seven members of the Peterson trial jury, to Michael Viner at Phoenix Books, for publication in fall 2006.

Hard to know which one of those deals scares me more. Jurors getting book deals - yeah, that’s not a good thing in my view. K ind of tips the scales of justice in a funny way. Not funny ha-ha, more like conflict of interest, bad taste and inappropriate funny. Not good at all.

Oprah getting a huge book deal…well, that just strikes me as cosmic injustice. Does the phrase “spread the wealth” not mean anything?

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